Black theology has long been about oppression and liberation. But is
there a different story to tell? Can the black story be one about a
quest for flourishing through agency and self-determination and not only
an existence of nihilistic struggle?
Drawing on a fresh reading of Jeremiah’s letter to Jewish exiles, and
his own Pentecostal tradition, Joe Aldred offers a fresh understanding
of the Black British experience which draws on a realised eschatology
rooted in identity, empowerment and an agenda. In a contested diasporan
context in the shadow of empire there exists opportunity to fully
flourish without apology – or as Jeremiah puts it to those in exile, to
‘settle, build and grow’.